What is Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1931 painting of a cow skull with the American flag called?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1931 painting of a cow skull with the American flag is called Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

The painting places a bleached cow skull at the center, with red and blue forms and a white field evoking the colors of the United States flag. O'Keeffe made the work during the period when bones and other desert objects became recurring subjects.

She collected bones in New Mexico and valued their sculptural shapes, weathered surfaces, and stark relationship to the landscape. Her bone paintings are not simply illustrations of death; they also explore endurance, form, and the visual character of the Southwest.

The work is sometimes confused with O'Keeffe’s Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills, another New Mexico painting involving a skull. The species and complete title distinguish this 1931 composition.